CardTrak.com Tells you everything you need to know about credit cards. My favorite feature is a search engine that helps you find the cards with the lowest interest rates and best benefits
SelectQuote.com and AccuQuote.com sift through hundreds of term life insurance policies so you can compare rates and find the best deals from top companies.
BankRate.com has up-to-date rates on everything from CDs to auto loans and mortgages. There are lots of useful calculators, including an eye-opener on how long it will take to pay off your credit card if you pay just the minimum amount due each month. Reality check!
MyFDICInsurance.gov features a free EDIE (electronic deposit insurance estimator) tool that explains how much of your money is insured by the FDIC. (You'll see me there: The FDIC asked me to be the site's spokesperson.) Webapps.ncua.gov/ins has an estimator for federally insured credit unions.
MyFico.com lets you obtain your FICO score for a fee. Click on the Products link and choose FICO standard for $15.95.
www.nhregister.com New Haven Register
www.nhps.net/hillhouse James Hillhouse High School
|www.nhps.net New Haven Board of Education
www.sde.ct.gov Connecticut State Department of Education
www.ubpl.glencoe.com (Business Law) Website coincides with your textbook
www.thomsonedu.com/school/pfl (Personal Finance) Website coincides with your textbook
www.kiva.com (Personal Finance) Microfinancing Project
www.bls.gov/oco Occupational Outlook Handbook--great source of career information
www.seedebate.org (Business Law) Weekly assignment posted and due every Thursday
www.quia.com (All Classes) Activities to help you review for the chapters/material covered in class
www.voki.com Create a voki
www.vocaroo.com Recording site
www.garageband.com Recording site
www.audacity.com Recording site
www.Mathtrain.tv Math videos to help with math
http://masc-arri.blogspot.com/ (All Classes) blog for daily journals and other assignments
CardTrak.com Tells you everything you need to know about credit cards. My favorite feature is a search engine that helps you find the cards with the lowest interest rates and best benefits
SelectQuote.com and AccuQuote.com sift through hundreds of term life insurance policies so you can compare rates and find the best deals from top companies.
BankRate.com has up-to-date rates on everything from CDs to auto loans and mortgages. There are lots of useful calculators, including an eye-opener on how long it will take to pay off your credit card if you pay just the minimum amount due each month. Reality check!
MyFDICInsurance.gov features a free EDIE (electronic deposit insurance estimator) tool that explains how much of your money is insured by the FDIC. (You'll see me there: The FDIC asked me to be the site's spokesperson.) Webapps.ncua.gov/ins has an estimator for federally insured credit unions.
MyFico.com lets you obtain your FICO score for a fee. Click on the Products link and choose FICO standard for $15.95.
http://www.finaid.org./ The smart student guide to financial aid
http://plentii.com/articles/read/spend-less-money-by-payback-pain-relief-for-student-loans/
http://jud.ct.gov/legalterms.htm Common legal words and definitions
http://www.writecheck.com/static/home.html used by students to check their work for proper citations, summarizations and paraphrasing.
http://www.turnitin.com/static/index.html helps students prevent plagiarism
http://www.goventurecourses.com Free e-learning courses online in business and money education
http://www.italladdsup.org Interactive financial games and simulations for teens.
http:www.themint.org Provides a fun and interactive way to learn about all the things people do with money: earning, saving, spending, investing, donating safeguarding, and borrowing.
http://choosetosave.org/ Calculators for everything--autos, bonds, budget, college, home, insurance, retirement, etc.
http://plentii.com/ Learn to Earn, Spend,and Save Your Money. Great articles, quizzes and videos http://www.consumerjungle.com/ Promotes consumer literacy for young adults
http://consumerjungle.net/ For Students
http://www.econedlink.org/ A premier source of classroom tested, Internet-based economic lesson materials for K-12 teachers and their students
http://ecedweb.unomaha.edu/K-12/ve.cfm Many financial lessons for K-12 in PowerPoint format. http://www.genirevolution.org/ Online Personal Finance Game
http://www.stockmarketgame.org/ Stock Market Game Website
http://www.treasurydirect.gov/indiv/tools/tools_moneymath.pdf Money Math: Lessons for Life is a four-lesson curriculum supplement for middle school math classes, teaching grade 7-9 math concepts using real-life examples from personal finance.
http://www.moaf.org/index Museum of American Finance has some very interesting financial activities.
http://www.mortgageloan.com/finance-glossary Finance glossary with over 2200 financial terms http://www.nasaa.org/investor_education/FSI/ Welcome to FSI: FRAUD SCENE INVESTIGATOR, an online interactive investor education program that teaches and empowers students how to detect and stop a million-dollar investment fraud and put the mysterious con man, “Mr. X,” behind bars. Through this free resource, students will learn how to research companies and understand the warning signs of fraudulent investment pitches.
http://lei.councilforeconed.org/ Welcome to Learning, Earning and Investing, a multi-faceted, comprehensive investor education program for students in grades four through 12.
http://www.360financialliteracy.org/ Interesting articles.
http://www.fdic.gov/consumers/consumer/moneysmart/young.html A financial education program that is computer based or you can order the CD. Interactive, starts with a tutorial, the topics include Bank On It, Borrowing Basics, Check It Out, Money Matters, Keep It Safe, To Your Credit, Charge It Right, Loan To Own and Your Own Home.
http://www.deluxe.com/ Nice lesson on checking accounts. Scroll to the bottom of the webpage and click Deluxe Resource Center, click Tools and Resources on the side bar, then click Learning About Checking Accounts to get the activities. There is other useful information on the site as well.
http://fakechecks.org/ Videos and tests about being scammed.
http://www.finaid.org/loans/ This sites explains the difference between different types of student loans and how to obtain loans for college.
http://financeintheclassroom.org/student/activities.shtml numerous activities
http://finance.youngmoney.com/ magazine for students